Current Affairs & GK Quiz Questions: 18 November 2014

1) Which cricket player was named as the
co-owner of the Uttar Pradesh Wizards franchise in the Hero Hockey India League
(HHIL) on 18 November 2014?

(A) Virat Kohli

(B) Suresh Raina

(C) Rohit Sharma

(D) MS Dhoni

2) The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded in
which city?

(A) Brussels

(B) Geneva

(C) Oslo

(D) Stockholm

3) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 17
November 2014 arrived at Australia and addressed 16,000 members of the Indian
Australian community at Sydney. Who was the last Indian prime minister to visit
Australia before Modi?

(A) Manmohan Singh

(B) P V Narasimha Rao

(C) A B Vajpayee

(D) Rajiv Gandhi

4) Which Indian State is the leading cotton
producer?

(A) Gujarat

(B) Maharashtra

(C) Andhra Pradesh

(D) Madhya Pradesh

5) Which country will host the G-20 Summit
in 2015?

(A) Turkey

(B) China

(C) Canada

(D) South Africa

6) Where is the headquarters of the
International Olympic Committee located?

(A) Italy

(B) Switzerland

(C) Belgium

(D) France

7) Supreme Court appointed Justice Mukul
Mudgal Committee, which investigated the allegations of spot fixing and betting
in the 2013 edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL), has given a clean chit
to who among the following on 18 November 2014?

(A) Gurunath Meiyappan

(B) Raj Kundra

(C) S Sreeshanth

(D) N. Srinivasan

8) Name the indigenously developed
surface-to-air missile which was successfully test-fired by India on 17
November 2014 from a test range in Odisha?

(A) Akash

(B) Dhanush

(C) Agni

(D) Prithvi

9) Who among the following has been
provided with Z-category security by the central government on 17 November 2014
taking into account his "vulnerability to attacks from his
opponents"?

(A) Aravind Kejiriwal

(B) Anna Hazare

(C) Baba Ramdev

(D) Ashram Bapu

10) Vrindavan Chandrodaya Mandir, the
proposed tallest temple in the world, the foundation stone of which was laid by
the President Pranab Mukherjee on 16 November 2014 is in which state?

Current Affairs & GK Quiz Questions: 18 November 2014
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